Hybrid Fall Rye
Serafino Hybrid Fall Rye Top Grain and Forage
KWS Daniello Hybrid Fall Rye
KWS Propower Hybrid Forage Fall Rye
Guttino Hybrid Fall Rye
Hazlet Fall Rye - Conventional Fall Rye
Forage trial data for fall crops
Hybrid Fall Rye
Hybrid fall rye is sold by the unit, 1 unit is 1 million viable seeds.
Farmers target 0.8 of a unit per ac. If the crop is for forage use, organics, or you are seeding late in the fall the use rate could increase.
The amount of lbs per unit will change depending on the seed lot due to germination and seed size. Most seed lots are between 70-90 lbs per unit (56-80 lbs per ac use rate)
We can fill tote bags and usually have some in the warehouse ready to sell in 28 unit bag sizes (35 ac)
Even flowering timing is critical to reduce ergot risk so even seeding depth, slow seeding speeds and any residue management ahead of time is important.
Hybrid fall rye:
KWS Daniello Hybrid Fall Rye
KWS Propower Hybrid Forage Fall Rye
Guttino Hybrid Fall Rye
Hazlet Fall Rye - Conventional Fall Rye
Forage trial data for fall crops
Hybrid Fall Rye
Hybrid fall rye is sold by the unit, 1 unit is 1 million viable seeds.
Farmers target 0.8 of a unit per ac. If the crop is for forage use, organics, or you are seeding late in the fall the use rate could increase.
The amount of lbs per unit will change depending on the seed lot due to germination and seed size. Most seed lots are between 70-90 lbs per unit (56-80 lbs per ac use rate)
We can fill tote bags and usually have some in the warehouse ready to sell in 28 unit bag sizes (35 ac)
Even flowering timing is critical to reduce ergot risk so even seeding depth, slow seeding speeds and any residue management ahead of time is important.
Hybrid fall rye:
- Has short strong straw for rye, suitable for irrigation or dry land
- Excellent grain quality with plump seeds and excellent falling numbers for rye milling
- Hybrid yield potential 20-40% more than traditional rye varieties, preforms well under stress
- Amazing potential on dry land and irrigation
- Rye has double the root system of winter wheat so can scavenge for water and nutrients
- Strong winter survivability
- Silage yield potential very high with good quality and early harvest
- Some farms double crop by cutting the rye before heading and allowing it to regrow. Others are silaging rye in early July and plant oats following the rye silage.
Below: Hybrid fall rye May 31st at flowering stage
Feed use information for hybrid rye from KWS
https://www.kws.com/us/en/products/cereals/rye/rye-for-feed/
https://www.kws.com/us/en/products/cereals/rye/rye-for-feed/
New Feeding Trials with Feedlot Cattle & Rye Grain
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Studies & information relating to hybrid fall rye:
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Hybrid Fall Rye School: Crop Agronomy, Feed Use, Forge Use
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Below is a study showing pigs fed rye.
Guttino & Daniello & Serafino would be the hybrid rye that fit within the this rye feeding study study below: 
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Hybrid rye shows potential as a new feed ingredient for finishing cattle
The word “rye” typically brings to mind cover crops and soil health with little thought to the grain that could actually be produced. This is largely driven by old varieties that often provide limited yield with high toxic ergot risk. This image may be about to change as hybrid rye varieties become more readily available across North America. KWS Cereals, a European company, has developed novel high yielding hybrid rye varieties with mitigated ergot risk. In test plots across the US hybrid rye has continuously out-yielded small grains such as wheat, barley, triticale, and older open pollinated varieties of rye. This new hybrid still offers the same value as old-style rye, contributing to winter cover and improving soil health, however, the added yield advantage and decreased ergot risk means good news for the feed industry! As a feed ingredient hybrid rye is similar in composition to barely or wheat. While extensive research has been completed with hybrid rye in swine diets, little data exists showing the role this novel feed ingredient may play in finishing cattle diets. Therefore, Dr. Zach Smith and Warren Rusche at South Dakota State University developed an experiment to evaluate the effect of replacing dry rolled corn with KWS hybrid rye on the growth performance, carcass traits, and efficiency of net energy utilization in finishing steers. Two hundred and forty, predominately Angus steers, were fed finishing diets for 117 days. The hybrid rye was coarsely cracked using a roller mill to a processing index of 78.5 ± 2.29 and the ergot alkaloid concentration was 0.39 ppm. Four treatments were used where hybrid rye replace dry rolled corn on a dry matter basis, with the final diet representing 100% replacement of corn with hybrid rye (Table 1). Interestingly, during the adaptation period of the trial (day 1 – day 18; Figure 1) increased inclusions of hybrid rye linearly increased average daily gain (ADG) and decreased feed to gain (F:G). Suggesting palatability was not an issue with this novel feed ingredient. However, inclusion of hybrid rye linearly decrease carcass adjusted final body weight (BW), ADG, and dry matter intake (DMI) and linearly increased F:G over the entire feeding period (Table 2). Hybrid rye also linearly decreased hot carcass weight (HCW) and rib eye area. However, these linear decreases were largely driven by the decreased performance noted in the high rye inclusion diets, with the 20% hybrid rye diet performing similarly to the corn-based control. Regardless of inclusion level, hybrid rye had no effect on distribution of liver scores and USDA grades for quality and yield. Based on performance from day 19 through day 117, performance-adjusted NE was calculated. The estimated NEm and NEg were 87.60 and 57.13 Mcal/cwt, respectively. These data show that 20% hybrid rye can be included in a finishing cattle diet with minimal to no impact on cattle performance and carcass quality. 
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How does a seed grower like us produce hybrid rye for certified seed?
Our parent seed of the 2 single lines comes from Europe. We need to order our parent seed about 4 months in advance and forecast our needs over a year in advance so the parent seed can be produced in Europe.
We plant a technical mixture that is 92% pollen receiving and 8% pollen giving. The seed production fields can look ragged as we are growing 2 varieties together. Our ergot risk is high as we need the wind to pollinate head to head for us. We seed a buffer strip of restorer (pollen giving) on the outside edges of the field and a strip down the middle to add extra pollen to the crop. This strip is later mowed out.
Prior to any seed crop we must follow crop rotation rules as with any seed crops and as always our volunteer management is key.
Our field is CFIA inspected for off types of any other crop or weeds and for presence of flowering of the pollen giving plants in the crop. We also must not have any different rye varieties or volunteer rye within 500 M of the crop.
After harvest we must submit samples to the CFIA before we are issued a crop certificate. While this is happening we are cleaning/ processing the seed for certified sale and sending for germination, vigor, disease and seed size testing. We also send rough bare and clean treated samples away for secondary verification for quality control.
We aim to have carry over seed to meet early season seed demand so that means bin space and cash flow management as well as re-testing of germination and vigor to ensure seed quality.
Our parent seed of the 2 single lines comes from Europe. We need to order our parent seed about 4 months in advance and forecast our needs over a year in advance so the parent seed can be produced in Europe.
We plant a technical mixture that is 92% pollen receiving and 8% pollen giving. The seed production fields can look ragged as we are growing 2 varieties together. Our ergot risk is high as we need the wind to pollinate head to head for us. We seed a buffer strip of restorer (pollen giving) on the outside edges of the field and a strip down the middle to add extra pollen to the crop. This strip is later mowed out.
Prior to any seed crop we must follow crop rotation rules as with any seed crops and as always our volunteer management is key.
Our field is CFIA inspected for off types of any other crop or weeds and for presence of flowering of the pollen giving plants in the crop. We also must not have any different rye varieties or volunteer rye within 500 M of the crop.
After harvest we must submit samples to the CFIA before we are issued a crop certificate. While this is happening we are cleaning/ processing the seed for certified sale and sending for germination, vigor, disease and seed size testing. We also send rough bare and clean treated samples away for secondary verification for quality control.
We aim to have carry over seed to meet early season seed demand so that means bin space and cash flow management as well as re-testing of germination and vigor to ensure seed quality.
Herbicide crop safety level for hybrid fall rye chart
How to use hybrid fall rye for silage for a forge crop:
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How do we produce hybrid fall rye certified seed:
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Reducing ergot in rye
The pictures below were taken mid April 2019 in a rye crop seeded mid September the year prior. The plant was still small on top but the roots had reached 3 feet or more deep already!
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